"dmz17" <dmz17_at_nospam.nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2003.01.05.21.56.48.283429_at_nospam.nowhere.com...
>
> > There is not a chance that Oracle would put its future success or
failure into the hands of someone
> > else's Board of Directors. There are no numbers small enough to express
the chance of that happening.
> >
> > Daniel Morgan
>
> I disagree. Oracle knows that PL/SQL is proprietary as hell. Supporting
> Sun's Java (oxymoron, I know) makes Oracle smell like a rose.
>
> If I had my way, nobody would use PL/SQL because they would not be
> portable.
>
> Funny, portability is what Oracle has preached for years.
>
> To Microsoft, portability means it runs on all versions of Windows. To
> Oracle it means it runs on/in every Oracle Database.
>
> Cheers,
>
> dmz17
And to Java, portability means crawling on all platforms with the right
version of JVM.
Received on Mon Jan 06 2003 - 20:16:43 CST
